SUBMISSION TO LEADERSHIP 3711 



This new factor in evolution, that we call "will" or 

 "intelligence" new only in that it has now become 

 manifest to us in social architecture, even as atoms are 

 manifest in material bodies is a terrible constructive 

 and destructive instrument, almost as potent for evil 

 as for good. It is a growing, benevolent factor, whose 

 gifts are augmented by the receiving, and whose de- 

 mands are ever more terrifying and exacting. 



Education, in its broadest sense, is the construc- 

 tive influence one thing exercises over another. For so- 

 ciety to obtain these constructive results, or as we say 

 "to give them a chance," human social atoms must be 

 brought within the range of each other's influence and 

 be given every opportunity to find that environmental 

 stimulus which will give their peculiar powers the 

 best chance to grow. That is the purpose of the edu- 

 cational chemist. 



Those powers, however, will be wasted, developed 

 to no purpose, unless they are themselves utilized; that 

 is unless they also are free to exercise their controlling 

 and guiding influence on others to a common creative 

 end. They cannot be so utilized unless other individ- 

 uals, in some one or more particulars voluntarily sub- 

 mit, eagerly and hopefully, to their leadership. 



But to recognize that creative power in which lead- 

 ership is rightfully resident requires a high order of 

 intelligence in those who must choose their leaders and 

 submit to their guidance. Not necessarily expert 

 knowledge, but at least an elementary understanding 

 of the ways in which creative power is acquired by 

 others and the purposes for which it is utilized. In 



